Collaborative Recital: Smoke in a North Wind: Songs from a Machine Age — NDSU and Concordia College
Kyle Vanderburg and Doug Harbin’s *Smoke in a North Wind* pairs mirrored Sandburg song cycles in collaborative recitals at NDSU and Concordia College.
Mothership at CLICK FEST 2026
Vanderburg's composition Mothership was selected for performance at CLICK FEST 2026, a juried electronic music festival hosted by Ohio University.
Roaming in Thought Receives United Kingdom Performances through Vox Novus' Fifteen-Minutes-of-Fame
Roaming in Thought was performed in Oxford and Mere, England through Vox Novus' Fifteen-Minutes-of-Fame project for baritone Andrew White.
Tempest in a Teakettle at Forum Wallis
Vanderburg's Tempest in a Teakettle was selected for performance at the 2026 Ars Electronica Forum Wallis, an international juried festival of contemporary electroacoustic music.
You Cant Outrun Your Daydreams at MUSLAB Planeta Complejo 2026
You Can't Outrun Your Daydreams was invited for presentation in MUSLAB's 2026 Planeta Complejo exhibition at Mexico City's Centro de Cultura Digital.
Composition Pedagogy and the Creative Ecosystem of Lifelong Learning at the CMS Central Conference
Vanderburg's presentation on composition pedagogy was accepted for the 2026 College Music Society Central Chapter Conference, highlighting lifelong creative development and educational practice.
International Honorable Mention for Hallucinations at IEEE Big Data 2025 AI Music Competition
Kyle Vanderburg’s *Hallucinations* received an Honorable Mention in the international AI Music Generation Competition at IEEE Big Data 2025, recognizing creative applications of artificial intelligence.
National Juried Selection of Creatures from the Black Bassoon for the 2025 College Music Society National Conference
Kyle Vanderburg’s *Creatures from the Black Bassoon* was nationally selected through a juried Call for Scores for the 2025 College Music Society National Conference.
National Juried Co-Presentation: “Composition Pedagogy and the Creative Ecosystem of Lifelong Learning” — 2025 College Music Society National Conference
Kyle Vanderburg and Zach Daniels’ research on composition pedagogy and lifelong creative development was nationally selected through peer review for the 2025 College Music Society National Conference.
Peer-Reviewed Performance and Publication of Tape Piece — 2025 ATMI National Conference and JATMI
Kyle Vanderburg’s *Tape Piece* was peer-reviewed and selected for performance at the 2025 ATMI National Conference and subsequently published in ATMI’s peer-reviewed journal.
International Juried Selection of Creatures from the Black Bassoon for Supersonique 2025, Marseille
Kyle Vanderburg’s *Creatures from the Black Bassoon* was selected from 245 anonymously reviewed submissions by a 12-member committee for performance at Supersonique 2025 in Marseille.
Juried Selection of Roaming in Thought for Fifteen-Minutes-of-Fame Featuring Andrew White
Kyle Vanderburg’s *Roaming in Thought*, for baritone and fixed media, was selected as one of 15 works for Vox Novus’s Fifteen-Minutes-of-Fame featuring Andrew White.
National Presentation: “Composition Pedagogy and the Creative Ecosystem of Lifelong Learning” — 2025 Aspen Composers’ Conference
Kyle Vanderburg and Zach Daniels presented their research on composition pedagogy and lifelong creative development at the 2025 Aspen Composers’ Conference in Aspen, Colorado.
International Juried Performance of Theme and Conversation — International Clarinet Association ClarinetFest® 2025
Kyle Vanderburg’s *Theme and Conversation* received a juried international conference performance at the International Clarinet Association’s ClarinetFest® 2025 in Fort Worth, Texas.
Invited International Performance of Creatures from the Black Bassoon — New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival 2025
Kyle Vanderburg’s *Creatures from the Black Bassoon* received an invited international performance at the 2025 New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival in New York City.
International Juried Performance of Miniwashitu — International Double Reed Society 54th Annual Conference
Kyle Vanderburg’s *Miniwashitu*, created for NDSU colleague Martin Van Klompenberg’s Contrabassoon Character Project, received a juried international performance at the 2025 IDRS Conference.
Externally Funded Professional Recording of Earmarks by the Boreas Trio
Kyle Vanderburg’s *Earmarks* was professionally recorded by NDSU’s Boreas Trio through an externally funded recording project supported by a $2,100 Arts Partnership grant.
Commission of Hallucinations for Soprano and Piano by Mara Campbell
Soprano Mara Campbell commissioned Kyle Vanderburg’s *Hallucinations*, a song cycle using texts generated by deliberately forcing ChatGPT toward statistically unlikely language and unexpected poetic results.
International Juried Performance and Russian Premiere of Tempest in a Teakettle — 12th St. Petersburg International New Music Festival
Kyle Vanderburg’s *Tempest in a Teakettle* received a juried international performance and Russian premiere at the 12th St. Petersburg International New Music Festival.
National Finalist — Course of Empire, The American Prize in Composition, Instrumental Chamber Music, 2025
Kyle Vanderburg’s Thomas Cole-inspired woodwind quintet *Course of Empire* was named a 2025 National Finalist for The American Prize in Instrumental Chamber Music.
Regional Juried Performance of Press Any Key To Continue — 2025 College Music Society Central Conference
Kyle Vanderburg’s *Press Any Key To Continue* was selected through a juried Call for Scores for performance at the 2025 CMS Central Conference.
Regional Juried Performance of Miniwashitu — Contrabassoon Character Piece Project, 2025 CMS Central Conference
Kyle Vanderburg’s *Miniwashitu*, composed for Martin Van Klompenberg’s Contrabassoon Character Piece Project, received a juried regional performance at the 2025 CMS Central Conference.
National Finalist — The American Prize in Composition, Orchestral Music, 2025
Kyle Vanderburg was named a 2025 National Finalist for The American Prize in Composition, Orchestral Music division, recognizing his compositional work through national competitive adjudication.
National Double-Blind Juried Selection of You Can't Outrun Your Daydreams — SEAMUS 2025 National Conference
Kyle Vanderburg’s *You Can’t Outrun Your Daydreams* was selected through double-blind peer review for presentation at the 2025 SEAMUS National Conference at Purdue University.
Regional Juried Performance of Joyride — 2025 College Music Society South Central Conference
Kyle Vanderburg’s clarinet and alto saxophone duo *Joyride* was selected through the Call for Compositions for performance at the 2025 CMS South Central Conference.
Commercial Release of Tape Piece — ABLAZE Records, Electronic Masters Vol. 10
ABLAZE Records selected Kyle Vanderburg’s electroacoustic composition *Tape Piece* for commercial release on *Electronic Masters Vol. 10*, providing externally selected professional dissemination of his work.
National Peer-Reviewed Presentation: “Debugging the Composer: Designing a Tool for Self-Reported Composition Processes” — ATMI 2024
Kyle Vanderburg’s web-based system for documenting and analyzing composers’ creative processes was peer reviewed and selected for presentation at the 2024 ATMI National Conference.
National Juried Performance of The Earth Shall Soon Dissolve Like Snow — 2024 College Music Society National Conference
Kyle Vanderburg’s *The Earth Shall Soon Dissolve Like Snow* received a juried performance at the 2024 College Music Society National Conference in Washington, D.C.
International Juried Performance of Tape Piece — Sonorities 2024, Belfast
Kyle Vanderburg’s *Tape Piece* was selected through the Listening Rooms open call for international presentation at the 2024 Sonorities Festival in Belfast, Northern Ireland.